make webmail not suck
I'm aware that Thunderbird and Firefox have a lot of code in common. AFAICT, Thunderbird is 90% JavaScript/XUL/CSS etc--stuff which could be served over HTTP such that from your web browser you could almost have a Thunderbird UI as a webmail app. And it's up to the server admin to keep it up-to-date, configure it for his mail service etc..
The (XPCOM, I think) bits that are missing could possibly be offered to the Firefox client as an XPI file, or maybe if they're small enough (given that, I think, none of it is UI so no i18n concerns etc) bundled into Firefox itself.
Or maybe something new needs to be invented for this crazy idea to work. I don't see an obvious way for things like drag-n-drop attachments to work. But I thought I'd mention it as I'm old enough (unlike my student users) to think Thunderbird is far, far better than SquirrelMail.
--Mb 14:39, 25 July 2007 (PDT)